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Nicaragua could bring canal project back to life

12 December 2021

Nicaragua has cut ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan) switching diplomatic allegiance to the People’s Republic of China, which could herald the revival of Nicaragua’s transoceanic canal project.
In 2014, Chinese billionaire Wang Jingh had undertaken plans to build a second shipping lane (...)

Joint Statement by Russia and the Republic of Nicaragua

Moscow (Russia) | 13 December 2019

On December 13, 2019, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Nicaragua Denis Ronaldo Moncada Colindres made an official visit to Russia at the invitation of the Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The visit was timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and (...)

US Treasury Targets Finances of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s Regime

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 17 April 2019

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Laureano Ortega Murillo, the son of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo, as well as Nicaraguan bank Banco Corporativo SA (BanCorp). Today’s action, taken pursuant to (...)

Nicaragua refuses to recognize NTC, calls NATO drunken warmonger

5 September 2011

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega announced that his government does not recognize the Libyan rebels’ National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people and described NTC as "an instrument of intervention by NATO forces."
"We can not recognize it. There (...)

The Obama Administration’s “Axis of Evil”

Iran/Nicaragua : Hillary Clinton’s new lie

by Thierry Meyssan

Beirut (Lebanon) | 28 July 2009

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced concerns about the construction of an Iranian mega-embassy in Nicaragua. "Experts" spoke on U.S. television about secret military operations being orchestrated by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Latin America against U.S. and Israeli interests. (...)

The Mega-embassy That Wasn’t

18 July 2009

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently warned of a "huge embassy in Managua," adding: "You can only imagine what that’s for."
By David V. Johnson
Have you heard that Iran built a mega-embassy in Nicaragua? Word of this development has passed the lips of many a conservative anxious (...)